Nats Fall To Phillies As Storen Has Another Bad Outing
The Nationals certainly didn’t have a problem creating offense in Saturday, but clutch hits were a different story. Even with a very solid start by Dan Haren, one key member of the Nats bullpen had another bad inning, and the offense couldn’t help the team quite enough in a 5-3 loss.
Dan Haren was dealing through the first five batters, retiring four of those five on strikeouts...
Photo: Eat the Jayson Werth bearded cupcake at Washington Nationals games
The Washington Nationals have begun selling cupcakes featuring the beard of outfielder Jayson Werth, because why not?
Nats add Kobernus, designate Maya for assignment
The Washington Nationals have called up utility man Jeff Kobernus from Triple-A Syracuse and designated right-hander Yunesky Maya for assignment.
The Nationals made the moves Saturday to put an extra body on the bench while second baseman Danny Espinosa takes a few days off because of a broken right wrist.
Kobernus was hitting .333 with one home run, 20 RBIs and 21 stolen bases...
Daily FanDuel Picks: May 25, 2013
Happy Memorial Day weekend! Yesterday snapped my two-game winning streak as I opted for the wrong high-priced starting pitcher — Anibal Sanchez‘s 25 points crushed Jordan Zimmermann‘s 10 despite Zimmermann picking up his eighth win of the year. Today will be a semi-condensed version of my daily picks due to some time constraints, but I did want to get them out regardless.Instead...
Nationals injury update: Ryan Mattheus, Danny Espinosa, Ross Detwiler
For the Washington
Nationals, the revolving door to the injury front keeps turning. Here
is the latest news according to MLB.com’s Bill Ladson.
Ryan Mattheus, broken
hand
Reliever Ryan Mattheus broke his right hand on May 19 as he
left the game against the San Diego Padres. He did not injure it on the field,
but rather, as a result of an ill-advised punching of...
Video: Tyler Moore's collision with Erik Kratz
Up above, video of Tyler Moore colliding with Phillies catcher Eric Kratz at the plate in the fourth inning last night. Still amazed Kratz held on to the ball. Tie game at the time, should Trent Jewett have sent Moore?
"I know Trent was a little upset he sent him on that play, but I didn’t
blame him at all. We haven’t scored many runs, and
shoot, it could’ve...
Jordan Zimmermann First to 8 Wins in NL
Jordan Zimmermann allowed two runs and six hits with no walks over seven innings to become the first eight-game winner in the National League with a 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his 14th save of the season.Zimmermann got help from a struggling Washington offense in the fifth inning that started with a base hit from Bryce Harper...
Nationals Manager Davey Johnson Says he Won’t Shave Until Team Starts Hitting
The Washington Nationals like a number of other teams that were expected to accomplish big things this season, have struggled so far. The Nationals 24-23 record is respectable, but they’re second-worst hitting team in the major leagues sporting a woeful .225 average.
Well, according a story via Yahoo! Sports, Nationals manager Davey Johnson, is trying everything he can to get...
About that pitch that broke Danny Espinosa's wrist back on April 14
Ouch! There's the pitch that broke Danny Espinosa's wrist back in April. Screencaps via MASN/MLB.com.
"I was thinking after a couple weeks some of it would start to go away. And before we went on the California trip, I said when
we get home, I want to get it checked out again. It's not getting worse,
but by no means has it gotten any better. So I wanted...
Dumpster Diving: Go Get Anthony Rendon
Welcome to Dumpster Diving, where we search for deep league pick-ups among the picked over. In this space we’ll highlight some of the good and bad lurking on the waiver wire in those deep mixed leagues (14+ teams) and NL/AL-only leagues. Today, let’s take it around the horn for some recommended additions across the diamond.Note: Ownership percentages are Yahoo, ESPNCatcherRussell...
Nats Minor League Leaders (5/24)
Here is a look at the Washington Nationals minor league system stat leaders.
BATTING LEADERS:
Batting Average: Eury Perez (AAA) .336, Jeff Kobernus (AAA) .333, Anthony Rendon (AA) .330, Jimmy Van Ostand (AA) .321
Slugging: Anthony Rendon (AA) .625, Brandon Miller (A) .509, Chris Marrero (AAA) .500, Wander Ramos (A) .598
On Base Percentage: Anthony Rendon ...
PIC: Gio Gonzalez wears shirt showing Nats pitching coach Steve McCatty in ‘Playgirl’
Tweet Steve McCatty was once a pitcher in the Major Leagues, playing with the Oakland Athletics in the late 70s and early 80s. Over that time, he accrued a career win-loss record of 63-63 and a career ERA of 3.99. He’s now the current pitching coach of the Washington Nationals. However, the more infamous note [...]
Rendon’s Hot-Streak Might Force Roster Moves
Anthony Rendon made a start at second base for the Harrisonburg Senators on Monday night. Could this be a direct reflection to the struggling second basemen on the Washington Nationals? The second base position is far from set on the Nationals. Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to who will be starting game to game. Espinosa is hitting a despicable .163 with 40 strikeouts...
Meet Gio Gonzalez's new puppy, "Stitch"
Move over, Hollywood. Gio Gonzalez got a new dog. Meet "Stitch".
There they are above, via a photo posted by Gio on Instagram Thursday night ("Me and the fat guy #stitch.") Heres to hoping Gio doesn't get rug burn on his forehead this time.
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Nationals Coach Was In Playgirl, So Naturally The Players Make T-Shirts To Honor Him
Well, this is something that I never thought I would be writing about: Photographic evidence that your coach posed for Playgirl in the 80’s. Nationals Steve McCatty’s 1984 Playgirl photograph was unearthed. So what do you do when you find out that your pitching coach was in Playgirl? MAKE T-SHIRTS WITH THE PHOTO ON IT. And this is just what the Nationals did. Gio Gonzalez modeled...
Video: Ryan Zimmerman on "A Night at the Park"
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Up above, CSNWashington.com video of Ryan Zimmerman talking about the fourth annual "A Night at the Park", which took place Thursday night at Nationals Park to support the ziMS Foundation. Good stuff. You can also make a donation to the ziMS foundation here.
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Another Sort-Of First for Bryce Harper
Even when I’m not trying to pay attention to Bryce Harper, he finds a way to capture my focus. Last night, I was seeing off a friend on the east side of Portland, and if I’d been thinking about any sport, it was hockey, since these are the days of the NHL playoffs. A TV was being projected onto one of the walls of the bar, and at first it was showing a minor-league hockey game...
Shirts rib Nats' coach in 'Playgirl'
Washington Nationals pitching coach Steve McCatty was one of several players included in a series of 1980s beefcake photos unearthed by Baseball Prospectus on Tuesday, and it didn't take long for the Nationals players to catch wind of McCatty's seductive shirtless pose.
Within hours of McCatty's 1984 Playgirl photoshoot coming to light, Nationals pitcher Dan Haren had...
The Washington Nationals Are Wearing Shirts With Their Pitching Coach’s Playgirl Photo On Them
Sure many women flock to Bryce Harper as the heartthrob of the Washington Nationals, but it’s actually their pitching coach, Steve McCatty who sends all the ladies into a tizzy. All the female fervor over McCatty reached it’s hunky pinnacle in 1984 when he was featured in a Playgirl pictorial. Next stop Beefcake City.
This tantalizing photo has all of the early 80′s sexuality...
Gio Gonzalez models shirt featuring Nationals pitching coach’s Playgirl photo
On Tuesday, Baseball Prospectus delivered one of the most strange and disconcerting but tremendously amusing posts in the site’s esteemed history. It featured images of what now can only be considered an ill-conceived gambit by Playgirl in the early 1980s where the magazine published beefcake photos of scantily clad MLB players on its pages in [...]The post Gio Gonzalez models...
Nationals players have shirts with pitching coach Steve McCatty posing for Playgirl on them (Picture)
Earlier this week, a rumor surfaced that Washington Nationals pitching coach Steve McCatty posed for Playgirl magazine in 1984. The folks at Baseball Prospectus later confirmed the speculation by digging up this photo and introducing it to the internet. As you might expect, it has been open season on McCatty in the Nationals’ clubhouse ever since. On Wednesday, Twitter user @JackoBeam...
Bryce Harper did everything except untuck his shirt yesterday...
Confront his fear of walls? Check (video here).
Hit an opposite field home run? Check (video here).
Make a great sliding catch in the eighth? Check (video here).
Hurt his knee again on that catch and scare the crap out of Davey Johnson late in the game because of said knee? Check ("It’s a little swollen." said Harper after the game).
Score...
Next up Washington, are they must win games?
Next up the Washington Nationals for the Memorial Day weekend. Is it too early to say these games are a must win? They are important and they might also help set the table for the season series. The Phillies who are on a two-game winning streak courtesy of Cliff Lee’s 3-0 shutout are two games back behind the second place Nationals.
The bats might be coming alive, the first being...
Nats closer rips Harper after miscue
It's been a rough couple of weeks for Nats' rising star Bryce Harper.
First, there was his embarrassing face-plant into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium. Harper tried to track down a drive off the bat of A.J. Ellis but failed to remember the important part of the term "warning track."
Take a look for yourself.
OK, so maybe it's wise for him not to do...
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Nats mock coach's old Playgirl photo
We'd be remiss if we didn't post something about the t-shirt Dan Haren made for Nats pitchers featuring the pic of Steve McCatty in that 1984 issue of Playgirl, which officially blew up and became a "thing" on Tuesday: Haren got T-shirts of McCatty's Playgirl shot made today. "UNTUCK" on back. "Utter joy," Clippard said. "This is...
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